Hey, Everyone.

Just a reminder to all of you that the game club is back this week, and we will be meeting on Thursday, November 19 from 5–7p.m. in BA3008. See you there.

Also, it should be mentioned that the video game event Gamercamp.ca is happening this Saturday, November 21.  There is a cost for admission, but it appears that this cost includes food that will be served at the event.  Additionally, club member of UTGDDC past, Daniel Steger, is scheduled to be demoing his prototype of Battle Beat at this event.  Gamercamp.ca looks really cool and may be something that some of you will want to check out this weekend.  And as if Gamercamp.ca were not enough, the CSSU will also be having Game Night this upcoming Friday.  Enjoy!

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Just a quick reminder to everyone that there is NO CLUB MEETING THIS WEEK.

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Hey Everyone.

The game club will be meeting this week on Thursday, November 5 from 5-7p.m. in BA3008.  Same time, but in a different room than last week’s meeting.  Sorry for the short notice.

This time around we’ll be teaching all of you about programming in Python and subsequently using PyGame as a way to make quick prototypes of your own video games. Python is one of the easiest programming languages to learn, and it serves as a good starting point for learning other programming languages more easily, too. Additionally, we’ll also be discussing a number of other tools that that you can use to develop video games with. So even if you’ve never programmed before, don’t worry because we will do our best to ensure that everyone has a good understanding of how to make their own video games.

And lastly, I would just like to thank fellow game club member Bilal for providing me with lots of resources and explanation about Python, PyGame, and how to teach each of these to others. I must say that he’s certainly helped me appreciate just how good of a programming language Python with PyGame is for making quick prototypes for video games.

Okay then, see you all at the meeting!

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Hi everyone.

Just reminding all of you that our next club meeting will be this upcoming Thursday, October 29 from 5-7 p.m. in BA3000.  Please note that this is the same time, but a different room than last week’s club meeting.  See you there!

CORRECTION:

I got tired and made a mistake when I sent out the most recent reminder of our meeting to the e-mail list and the facebook group.  Please take notice that the club is meeting in room BA3000 this time, NOT in room 3008 as I mistakenly mentioned previously.  Sorry for the confusion everyone, and please don’t let that stop you from showing up this week. 

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Hey Everyone.

Our club will be meeting at the same time in the same room as last week.  So that’s this Thursday, October 22 from 5-7 p.m. in BA3008.  Sorry about the late notice.  We’ll see you there!

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Hi everybody.

Same time, new room!

The game club is back this week and we WILL be meeting this upcoming Thursday, October 15 from 5-7 p.m. in BA3008, which is on the 3rd floor of the Bahen Centre.  Please take  notice that this time we will be meeting in a different room than we usually meet in, so be prepared for that and hopefully we’ll see all of you there.  And as always, if you want to join the club, but have never attended a meeting yet, that’s cool.  We always do our best to welcome new people to the club at anytime, so come down anyways.

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Hey Everyone.

Unfortunately, there will not be a U of T game club meeting this week. We figured that since midterms are next week for many people, it would be a better idea to cancel this week’s club meeting to give everyone more time to study. However, the IGDA special event is still taking place on Thursday, October 8 at 7:30 p.m., and we encourage all of our members to attend it if they can (I certainly plan to be there). I just want to make it clear that you do not need to be an IGDA member to attend this event, and I think it’s absolutely free for anyone who wants to show up. Once again, additional information about this event can be found at: http://www.igda.org/toronto/

Also, on behalf of the UTGDDC, I just want to briefly thank Andrei and Ante from FunForged for stopping by to talk to us last week about their experiences working in the Toronto video game industry and about founding our game club itself. It was a lot of fun and I think that everyone learned something new and useful. Hopefully, we’ll have you guys back again sometime soon. If anyone who signed up for the beta test of the next FunForged game did not receive an e-mail reply from Andrei, please e-mail netbeat@hotmail.com, and I’ll send your e-mail address to him so that he can put you on the mailing list for the beta.

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Hey Everyone.

The Toronto chapter of the IGDA (International Game Developers Association) is having a special moderated discussion on a topic entitled “Running an Ontario game studio: From start-up to stability.” The discussion will happen this week on Thursday, October 8 starting at 7:30 p.m. in room 310 at Metro Hall.

A number of high-profile CEOs and CTOs from some of Toronto’s and Ontario’s biggest game studios will be speaking at this event, and it sounds like a great opportunity to learn more about running a game studio from real-world experts. To get more information about the speakers and location of this event, you can go to: http://www.igda.org/toronto/

Hopefully, we’ll see many of you there.

The time and location for this week’s club meeting are currently up-in-the-air, but we’ll be announcing these details as soon as they are available.

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The UTGDDC will meet again this coming Thursday, October 1st, from 5-7 PM in BA2195.

Additionally, there is open registration for the Vortex Game Competition, which is an excellent way to get your game development ideas out to a highly skilled group of industry leaders. The Vortex competition consists of the Vortex Boot Camp, a two-day event that teaches you how to put together a video game proposal, and the actual competition, where you pitch these ideas as either a concept or a prototype. Registration for students is 50% off. For more information, see the Vortex Competition website at http://vortexcompetition.com/.

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Hi everybody!

The U of T Game Design and Development Club will be having its next meeting this upcoming Thursday, September 24, from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in BA2195.

Just in case you haven’t been there before, BA2195 is located at the Bahen Centre for Information Technology (BA) at 40 St. George St. (near the intersection of Collge St. and St. Georege St.).

Room 2195 is on the second floor.

We had a good group of people come out to last week’s meeting and we discussed a variety of video game topics that ranged from game design to the business of video game development. Hopefully, we’ll see everyone who came out last week at this week’s meeting, too.

If you didn’t get a chance to come out last week, don’t worry, you can still come out to this week’s meeting. The good news is that our club is very casual, and we understand that our members can’t always be there every week. You should also know that if you can’t stay for the entire amount of time that our club meets for, that’s okay, too. Some of our members have classes that don’t end until 6p.m., so they show up at 6p.m. instead of the usual 5p.m. meeting time. If you’re new to the club, then just come by and we’ll make some introductions for you.

Alright, we’ll see you all on Thursday.

Search facebook for The U of T Game Design and Development Club facebook group and become a member to receive facebook updates about our upcoming activities and meetings, too.

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